Bletchley Park Trust secures £4.6 million grant
Posted on 10-Oct-2011 15:16 News, Computing
The investment will enable the restoration of iconic Codebreaking Huts 1, 3 and 6 and create a world-class visitor centre and exhibition in the currently derelict Block C as soon as £1.7 million in match funding has been raised.
Akamai joins OpenStack community
Posted on 8-Oct-2011 08:19 News, Open Source
Company plans to provide advice and guidance on best practices for platform design and architecture to help overcome the availability, delivery, performance, and scale challenges inherently faced by globally distributed cloud infrastructures and applications.
Microsoft Xbox bringing TV to console - but not in New Zealand
Posted on 7-Oct-2011 12:00 News, Gaming
Microsoft Corp. has plans to roll out TV content on Xbox LIVE, the online entertainment service for Xbox 360. AT&T, BBC, Comcast, HBO, Rogers, Telefónica, Televisa and Verizon are among providers rolling out new TV entertainment services on this platform.
Apple's Steve Jobs passed away
Posted on 6-Oct-2011 14:37 News, Apple
Apple CEO Tim Cook sent out a company-wide email telling the bad news, and telling of plans for a celebration of his life.
Apple Launches iPhone 4S, iOS 5 & iCloud
Posted on 5-Oct-2011 09:50 News, Apple
iPhone 4S features dual-core A5 chip, new camera, full 1080p HD video recording and introduces Siri speech recognition.
Symantec unveils new platform for cloud security
Posted on 5-Oct-2011 07:00 News, Security
Symantec O3 combines access control, information protection and compliance control in a single security solution, allowing enterprise customers to extend their internal security policies to public and private cloud services.
Oracle unveils Big Data Appliance
Posted on 4-Oct-2011 09:40 News, Computing
The system is engineered and optimized for acquiring, organizing and loading unstructured data into Oracle Database 11g. The Oracle Big Data Appliance includes an open source distribution of Apache Hadoop, Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Data Integrator with Application Adapter for Hadoop, Oracle Loader for Hadoop, an open source distribution of R, Oracle Linux, and Oracle Java HotSpot Virtual Machine.
Oracle announces system engineered for extreme analytics
Posted on 4-Oct-2011 09:38 News, Computing
Oracle unveiled the Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine, in-memory hardware and software system engineered to run analytics faster than ever, provide real-time visual analysis, and enable new types of analytic applications.
Amazon launches four new Kindle devices
Posted on 29-Sep-2011 07:38 News, Web media
Amazon is introducing an all-new Kindle family: three all-new Kindle e-readers that are smaller, lighter, and more affordable, and Kindle Fire, which the company says is a new class of Kindle.
SmartPay and Snapper enter partnership
Posted on 28-Sep-2011 12:12 News, eWallet
SmartPay has entered into a partnership to offer the Snapper contactless payment solution on SmartPay’s retail network via the PAX terminal range.
Telstra lights up 4G mobile services in Australia
Posted on 27-Sep-2011 16:05 News, 3G
Australians will enter a new era of mobile telecommunications today with Telstra launching the Australia's first superfast 4G LTE mobile network in capital city CBDs and more than 30 regional and metropolitan centres.
National Cyber Security Centre opens
Posted on 27-Sep-2011 15:51 News, Security
The Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Steven Joyce, says the global threat from cyber intrusions is real and growing, and New Zealanders and the New Zealand economy are not immune.
University of Canterbury upgrades BlueFern HPC capacity
Posted on 23-Sep-2011 12:00 News, Education
Prime Minister and UC alumnus the Rt Hon John Key will be on campus as UC celebrates its BlueFern High Performance Computing (HPC) capacity being boosted tenfold with an upgrade to its computer architecture.
